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This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face.

~Dennis Farina

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It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Being Cop Every Getting Great Great Time Guys Liked Morning Time Up

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My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

~Dennis Farina

Topics: About Fair Judicious Know Parents Say Strict Were Would You

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I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Acting Acting Career Career Day High-School Lasted Think I Think

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You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Act Acting Career Carry Certain Day Depending Different Different Ways Force Go Going Handle How Hundred Involved Kind Learn React Really Situations Things Through Too Ways You Your Yourself

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Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Acting Ears Eyes Just Keep Me Mouth Open People Progress Shut Try Work Worked

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I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Anybody Been Believe Ever Everybody Gotta Hardly Hollywood Like Met Nice People Some Some People Very You

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I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Barrels Before Camera Different Different Kind Editing Film Had Kind Lock Movements Seen Slick Smoking Stock Than Thought Two

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You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Act Directed Director Editing Go Him Just Leave Rest Right Scene Stuff Technical Think Up Way Whatever You

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Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

~Dennis Farina

Topics: Back Cary Grant Case Everybody Grant Just Look Looking Looking Back Mirror See Them Wants

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 29th, 1944

Died: July 22nd, 2013

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